Friday's Miscellany 09-17-2010

Advisory Panel on Department of Defense Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities After Certain Incidents
• Before Disaster Strikes: Imperatives for Enhancing Defense Support of Civil Authorities

Afghanistan Analysts Network
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan’s Evolving Elections

Air University
• Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2010, v. 24, no. 3
o Lorenz on Leadership: Part 3
o Reenabling Air Force Command and Control for Twenty-first-Century Partnerships
o Desert Shield and Desert Storm: 20 Years in Retrospect
o Seeing the Whole Elephant
o Femme Fatale 2010
o Civilian Language Education in America: How the Air Force and Academia Can Thrive Together
o Achieving a Credible Nuclear Defense
o It’s Time to Fight Back: “Operationalizing” Network Defense
o Satellites and Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Two Remotely Operated Ships Passing in the Fight

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision Statement on Capital Standards
• Missed Opportunities in the Dodd-Frank Act
• The Monumental Task Assigned to the Fed
• Proxy Access and the Market for Corporate Control
• Regulation of Broker-Dealers and the Dodd-Frank Act

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of “Wahlfreiheit”
• German Views on the Ninth Anniversary of 9/11
• Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Politics

American Security Project
• Consensus for American Security

Amnesty International
• New Order, Same Abuses—Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq
• Senegal: Land of Impunity

Asian Development Bank Institute
• Fiscal Policy Issues for India after the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2010)

Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
• Consequence Management: Steps in the Right Direction?

Brookings Institution
• The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea: Dark Clouds, Only One Silver Lining
• Combating Climate Change through Quality Education
• The Determinants of Aid Volatility
• The Federal Budget Outlook
• Making Development Aid More Effective
• New Geopolitics and Rediscovery of the US-Japan Alliance: Reshaping “Northeast Asia” Beyond the Border
• Obama’s Infrastructure Agenda: Understanding the Pillars
• Pakistan’s Future: The Bellagio Papers
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• States Of Conflict: An Update on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Territorial Disputes and Seabed Petroleum Exploitation: Some Options for the East China Sea
• Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in America’s 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas

Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
• Cambodia—Maritime Security Challenges and Priorities
• Security Challenges and Implications for Defense Policy

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Pakistan’s Roller-Coaster Economy: Tax Evasion Stifles Growth
• Three Mirages and Two Markets: Understanding the South Caucasus

CATO Institute
• Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Eye to the Future: Refocusing State Department Policy Planning
• Planning Diplomacy and Development: Force Planning Applications for the State Department and USAID
• Rebuilding Diplomacy: A Survey of Past Calls for State Department Transformation

Center for Security Policy
• Shariah: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis - Report of Team 'B' 11

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike
o Related slides

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghanistan: A Progress Report
• Part I – Shaping the Campaign
• Part II – Meeting the Challenges of 2010
• Part III – Implementing the New Strategy
• Afghanistan’s National Assembly Elections
• Central Asia's Pipelines
• The Military Balance in Asia, 1990-2010: A Quantitative Analysis
• U.S.-Saudi Security Cooperation and the Impact of U.S. Arms Sales

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
• Assessing the Health of Army Laboratories: Funding for Basic Research and Laboratory Capital Equipment
• Improving the Army's Next Effort in Technology Forecasting
• A Primer on Alternative Transportation Fuels

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Obama's War: Prospects for the Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Combined Arms Center
• The Colloquium, September 2010, v. 3, no. 2
o The Path to Victory: Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq
• Military Review, September-October 2010, v. 90, no. 5
o The Top Seven Myths of U.S. Defense Policy Toward the Americas
o Disarming the Key Leader Engagement
o Thoughts on the Battle for the Mind: IO and COIN in the Pashtun Belt
o National Will from a Threat Perspective
o Heuristics and Biases in Military Decision Making
o Shared Situational Understanding: Fundamental Principles and Iconoclastic Observations
o The Militarization of Gazprom
o The Allure of Quick Victory: Lessons from Peru’s Fight against Sendero Luminoso
o Talking Grand Strategy
o A Practical Approach to Cultural Insight
o Now That We’re Leaving Iraq, What Did We Learn?
o The Challenge of Leadership in the Interagency Environment

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Evolving Nature of Terrorism - Nine Years after the 9/11 Attacks

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Pilot Flight and Duty Time Rule

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Current Security Situation on the Korean Peninsula

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
• The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements
• Oversight of MWAA, Reagan Washington National Airport and the Perimeter Rule

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Banking on Reform: Capital Increase Proposals from the Multilateral Development Banks

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Nuclear Terrorism: Strengthening Our Domestic Defenses, Part II

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Afghanistan's Unpromising Elections
• Rising Midterm Economic Pressures

Danish Institute for International Security (DIIS)
• ‘Old’ versus ‘New’ Europe: The 2002-08 Straitjacket of European Geopolitics

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Interagency Combating WMD Database of Responsibilities, Authorities, and Capabilities (INDRAC) website

Department of Defense
• Better Buying Power: Guidance for Obtaining Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending
• Guidance Roadmap
• DoD Instruction 2200.01, Combating Trafficking in Persons (CTIP), September 15, 2010
• DoD Instruction 3115.12, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), August 24, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-011, Intelligence Oversight Policy Guidance, March 26, 2008, Incorporating Change 1, September 8, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-021, DoD Use of the Civil Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking (SARSAT) System for Support to Personnel Recovery, October 17, 2008 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-027, Security of Unclassified DoD Information on Non-DoD Information Systems, July 31, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-052, DoD Guidance for Reporting Questionable Intelligence Activities and Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters, June 17, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 10, 2010

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-107 - Recommendations to Improve the Coast Guard’s System for Adjudicating Suspension and Revocation Matters
• OIG-10-114 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Tenant Satisfaction Survey)

Department of State
• Consular Notification and Access
• The Consular Notification and Access Manual
• Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster

Department of the Air Force
• 2010 Combat Air Force Strategic Plan

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: United Kingdom

EU Institute for Security Studies
• Human Rights Challenges in EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Cases of EUPOL and EUJUST LEX
• Humanitarian Action in Pakistan: A Case for EU Political Involvement
• State and Society: The Democratic Challenge

European Policy Centre
• Nagorno-Karabakh – A Ticking Time Bomb
• EU Strategic Partnerships: Are They Worth the Name?

Foreign Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Crime in the United States, 2009

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
• Defending U.S. Maritime Commerce In Peacetime From 1794 To Today
• Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials, GAO-10-1041T [testimony]
• Defense Health Care: Status of Efforts to Address Lack of Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements, GAO-10-1013T [testimony]
• Defense Planning: DOD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe, GAO-10-745R
• Financial Management Systems: Experience with Prior Migration and Modernization Efforts Provides Lessons Learned for New Approach, GAO-10-808
• Information Security: Progress Made on Harmonizing Policies and Guidance for National Security and Non-National Security Systems, GAO-10-916
• Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing, GAO-10-304
• Joint Strike Fighter: Assessment of DOD's Funding Projection for the F136 Alternate Engine, GAO-10-1020R
• Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R
• Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE's Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816
• Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to Respond to and Lessen Releases, GAO-10-769
• Veterans' Benefits: Training for Experienced Disability Claims Processors, GAO-10-1029T [testimony]
• Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses, GAO-10-722

Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance [8 Sept 2010]

Heritage Foundation
• Adding DREAM Act to Defense Bill Is Another Form of Amnesty
• Advice and Consent? The Senate Should START with Advice
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• Do Not Undermine the US-European Military Relationship
• Federal Pay Still Inflated After Accounting for Skills
• Implementing Obamacare: A New Exercise in Old-Fashioned Central Planning
• Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes: McConnell-Grassley Tax Hike Prevention Act Would Help Taxpayers and Economy
• Russia’s Proposed New European Security Treaty: A Non-Starter for the U.S. and Europe
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
• Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to U.S. Interests?
• Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix

Human Rights Watch
• Always on the Run: The Vicious Cycle of Displacement in Eastern Congo
• Without Protection: How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• Thinking about Pakistan's Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis and War

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Civil Separated Plutonium in the INFCIRC/549 States – Taking Stock
• Global Fissile Material Stock Charts
• Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (INFCIRC/549): Background and Declarations

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Monograph 172: The International Criminal Court that Africa Wants
• ISS Paper 215: Eco-cop Environmental Policing in Eastern Africa
• ISS paper 216: Natural Resources Conflict Management Processes and Strategies in Africa

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Disgruntled Afghans Throw Out Taleban

International Crisis Group
• Pakistan: The Worsening IDP Crisis

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Adjustment under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09
• Bank Capital and Uncertainty
• Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
• Cyprus: Selected Issues
• Indonesia: Financial System Stability Assessment
• Indonesia: Selected Issues
• Monetary Transmission of Global Imbalances in Asian Countries

International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset

International Relations and Security Network
• Assessing the Iraq Surge
• BP Returns To Libya Decades After Gaddafi’s Revolution
• Burma Finds Protective Brother in China
• China’s Rise, the US, and Asia’s Angst
• A Choice of 9/11s
• Georgia Pressing US to OK Defense Purchases
• 'Ground Zero' Imam Says Plans Misunderstood
• Political Is Personal in Peace Process
• Reshaping Bank Behavior
• Serbia: Trouble in Sandzak
• Ugandans Divided Over Somalia Strategy
• Uncertainty Remains Over Black Sea Fleet
• Washington Turf Wars

International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance

Japan Ministry of Defense
• Defense of Japan 2010 [defense white paper]

Lexington Institute
• Radical Multiculturalism a Growing Problem in Public Schools

National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Afghanistan Elections Update

National Security Archive
• Former Guatemalan Soldier Sentenced to Ten Years for Lying About Role in Dos Erres Massacre
• "No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show

Nautilus Institute
• The 2009 Australian Defence White Paper: Analysis And Alternatives

New American Foundation
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Dir
o Map of Dir
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Frontier Regions
o Map of Frontier Regions
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand
o Map of Helmand
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Orakzai
o Map of Orakzai
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabul and Uruzgan

Office of The Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
• Joint Staff/Joint Operations: Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama, DoD correspondence sent, 2005-2008
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama correspondence to DoD, 2005-2008

Palm Center
• Don’t Ask Don't Tell Scorecard

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Americans Spending More Time Following the News
• Public Focused on Tensions over Islam: Partisans Divide over Media Coverage of Obama

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellent in Journalism
• Koran and Cultural Center Put Islam in the News

Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: How the Country Can Profit and Become More Secure by Getting Rid of Its Surplus Weapons-Grade Uranium

RAND
• Moving Toward a Sustainable U.S. Defense Budget: Speech Given June 15, 2010, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Real Instituto Elcano
• Africa, AFRICOM and the Path to Stability

Security Council Report
• Nepal
• UN Security Council Elections 2010

Security Service MI5
• Address at the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals by the Director General of the Security Service, Jonathan Evans

Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Global Entrepreneurship and the United States

Small Wars Journal
• Comparisons in Nation Building: Korea & Iraq
• Drone Attacks and Just War Theory
• Fighting for a Narrative: A Campaign Assessment of the US-led Coalition’s Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan
• Plan Mexico? Towards an Integrated Approach in the War on Drugs
• A Remembrance of 9/11
• When Relief Aid Becomes Counterproductive: A Study of Intervention in the Congo (2007-2008)

Space Security.org
• Space Security 2010

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan

Yousuf Nazar - State of Pakistan
• Pakistan's Way Forward: Disengagement, Realignment, and Empowerment

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia

Truman Project
• Afghanistan 101

UK House of Commons Defence Committee
• Strategic Defence and Security Review
• The Strategic Defence and Security Review - Memoranda

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
• Advancing New Media Research
• Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia
• Civil Society in Darfur: The Missing Peace
• Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate (Arabic edition)
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Bosnia
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
• Internal Displacement and Local Peacebuilding in Kenya: Challenges and Innovations
• Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Hamas and the Peace Process: New Talks Highlight Internal Tensions
• Three Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• What Arabs Really Think About Iran

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico: New Data and Insights Illuminate Key Trends and Challenges

World Bank
• The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries